Analyze and resolve VM performance issues

Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition, uses analytics to determine the root cause of performance issues in a virtualized environment. When one problem triggers multiple Systems Center or vCenter alerts, Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition, tracks down the initial issue that caused other problems. It then displays only that virtual object, a description of the problem, the elapsed time during which the alarm has been active, and an actionable remediation step that will resolve the problem.

Analyze and resolve VM performance issues

Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition, uses analytics to determine the root cause of performance issues in a virtualized environment. When one problem triggers multiple Systems Center or vCenter alerts, Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition, tracks down the initial issue that caused other problems. It then displays only that virtual object, a description of the problem, the elapsed time during which the alarm has been active, and an actionable remediation step that will resolve the problem.

Generate and distribute turn-key management reports

Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition, produces high-level reports on virtual environment operational data such as performance issue counts, resource usage, storage efficiency and VM density. These reports are available on a customizable timeframe and can be configured to show different areas of infrastructure pertaining to different data centers, hypervisors, business units, applications, or any other grouping.

Generate and distribute turn-key management reports

Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition, produces high-level reports on virtual environment operational data such as performance issue counts, resource usage, storage efficiency and VM density. These reports are available on a customizable timeframe and can be configured to show different areas of infrastructure pertaining to different data centers, hypervisors, business units, applications, or any other grouping.

Go beyond virtual machine performance monitoring and get the expert predictive analytics required to proactively ensure the health and efficiency of your virtual infrastructure. We’ve built years of expertise and best practices into an easy-to-use, out-of-the box solution complete with dashboards, alerts, and reports that provide you with early detection of performance, capacity and configuration issues. Our expert guidance and auto-remediation ensures that potential issues are resolved before business-critical applications and customer satisfaction is impacted.

Confidently implement quality of service (QoS) guarantees, while reducing waste and controlling operating expenses. Properly optimized and configured VMs will provide you with considerable efficiencies and maximize capacity utilization and consolidation ratios without sacrificing performance. Get recommended configuration changes with the option to implement them immediately or automate them by using the scheduling assistant. By automating and scheduling necessary updates for off-hour maintenance windows, you will be able to remain productive and focused on other high-priority projects.

Control dynamic virtual environments with change audit trails and management

Dynamically remediate harmful or unwanted modifications with detailed audit trail tracking and change management. Facilitate performance troubleshooting with a detailed view of all changes within your dynamic virtual environment, including those originating from administrators or directly from vSphere. Easily determine who made what change, when and optionally choose to roll back changes that negatively impact performance.

Simplify VM configuration tasks and improve VM to Admin ratios

Realize the potential cost savings of virtualization with the virtual environment operations management tools you need to automate and enforce the necessary policy controls and governance to prevent VM sprawl. Foglight for Virtualization, Standard Edition also simplifies daily tasks, allowing you to manage more VMs effectively.

Features

Simplified performance management

See everything you need to know across your heterogeneous virtual environment from a single-pane-of-glass dashboard, including details on resource utilization and associated costs, alarms, and bottlenecks — helping you meet SLAs more efficiently.

Predictive virtual machine performance monitoring

Easily pinpoint current and future potential issues across VMware ESX(i), Microsoft Hyper-V and RHEV hypervisors and drill down into root cause analysis. Resolve issues before applications or users are impacted. Get detailed advice and workflow analysis to help immediately execute a resolution. Organize and manage virtual objects with customer business views, and create dynamic, rule-based business views.

Maximized resource utilization

Reduce operating expenses (OPEX) while guaranteeing service level agreements and quality of service with a focus on virtual environment optimization and automation to proactively prevent problems from occurring.

Identify available slots, forecast exhaustion of resources in VMs and estimate purchasing requirements with the ability to model hardware changes.

Compliant change tracking and management with optional rollback

Gain visibility into configuration changes, and easily remediate unwanted or harmful administrator or vSphere changes that may have caused performance issues. Optionally select to roll back changes at the click of a button to remediate performance degradation.

Prepare for host server refresh, upgrade or expansion projects by finding the optimum configurations and minimum number of new or existing host servers to maximize VM performance while minimizing server cost, space and power needs.

Power minimizationNEW in Version 7.0

Reduce costs by determining the minimum number of host servers needed over time to safely run workloads and estimating potential cost savings by powering down unneeded servers.

Advanced optimizationNEW in Version 7.0

Automatically adjust virtual machine disk sizes up or down to ensure optimal performance of fluctuating workloads.